By Kate Tobbe Ptak.

TIMES IN GENERAL

Now that I have introduced W.P. Kavanaugh to you, I am going to review the exciting times that W.P. lived in.  Hopefully this will refresh your memories of the advance of technology and it’s impact on daily life. 

The Industrial Revolution, begun in the 1750’s, made it possible to use mechanical equipment to make life easier. Rather than relying on exclusively human made, animal powered, or wind and water powered means, by using machines, people and goods were able to get around more quickly and easily, more things were produced, transported, sold, and used. In 1769 Watt’s separate condenser model introduced the way for the steam engine to be invented.